We forget why we have entered a room because passing through doors creates an ‘event boundary’ causing the brain to file away what we were just thinking about.
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There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
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It has been calculated that every 2 minutes, we take more pictures than all of humanity in the 19th century.
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97% of all paper money in the US contains traces of cocaine.
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NYC's Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) dumps old subway cars into the ocean to serve as artificial reef.
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'X' became symbolic for a kiss because in the middle ages when alot of people were illiterate and they used to sign documents with an X and then kiss it for sincerity.
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It's impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath.
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Standard paper cannot be folded in half more than 7 times.
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